Sleeve-holder



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SLEEVE HOLDER.

No. 597,883. A Patented Jan. 25, 1898.

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UNITED STATES PATENT EETCE.

ORLANDO S. KEPLER, OF PATTERSON, PENNSYLVANIA.

SLEEVE-HOLDER.

SIECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 597,883, dated January 25, 1898. Application filed May 15, 1897. Serial No. 636,766. (No model.)

Y To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ORLANDO S. KEPLER, of Patterson, in the county of Juniata and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new -and useful Improvements in Sleeve-Holders;

. ment down in the desired rela-tion to the hand ing had to the accompanying drawings, in'

which- Figure l shows the back of a hand and a` portion of an arm and the end of a sleeve with the device applied; and Fig. 2 is a front elevation, partly in section, of the improved ring or holder.

l indicates a ring made in the flattened form indicated in the drawings and adapted to lit over the fingers of the hand and to be held in such position by the thumb. This ring is provided at 2 with a hinge, the free ends of the ring (indicated at 3 3) terminating one in a button or projection 4, which engages a sleeve 5, internally screw-threaded at its opposite end to engage a screw-thread 6, formed on the opposite end 3 of the ring. The sleeve 5 has a perforated head or closed end with which the button 4 engages, the connection being such as to adapt the sleeve to be readily rotated upon the button for engaging the screw-thread 6 and permitting the adjustment of the sleeve 5 thereon for adjusting the size of the ring to the hand or wrist upon which it is placed.

7 '7 indicate flexible strips or cords, to the ends of which are connected garment-clasps 8 S of any usual or suitable construction, adapting them to engage the sleeve (indicated at 9) upon opposite sides of the hand. The flexible connection 7 may be either in the form of asmall flexible cord or strap or light chains of gold, silver, or other metal which eifectively hold the sleeve 9 upon the arm at the desired adjustment without presenting too marked an appearance upon the hand or wrist of the wearer.

The ring may be formed of any suitable material, such as gold or silver, or it may be made of wood, hard rubber, or bone, or even a baser metal, and it may be provided with any desired amount of ornamentation to suit the fancy of the wearer.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In aV sleeve-holder, a ring having a hinge and means for connecting the free ends of the parts of the ring and for adjusting the same to the hand, in combination with clasps having a iieXible connection with said ring, substantially as described.

. 2. ln a sleeve-holder, the divided hand-ring or bracelet for encircling the hand or Wrist provided with a hinge uniting its parts, one of said parts being screw-threaded at its free end and the other carrying a swiveling screwthreaded sleeve for uniting and adjusting said free ends, in combination with clasps having flexible connections with said ring, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof l have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ORLANDO S. KEPLER.

Witnesses:

- (finis. ADAMS,

JOHN K. OBERHOLTZEE. 

